Robert Wuthnow

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Robert Wuthnow (born 1946) is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology, Director of the Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion, and Chair of the Department of Sociology at that institution. ^[1]

He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley and has published widely in the sociology of religion, culture, and civil society. ^[2]

Wuthnow is editor of The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion and received the first Tufts University Civic Engagement Prize in 2007. ^[3]

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America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity (2005)
Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society (2004)
All in Sync: How Music and Art are Revitalizing American Religion (2003)
Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Artist (2001)
Growing Up Religiojs: Christians and Jews and Their Journeys of Faith (1999)
Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities (1998)
After Heavern: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (1998) Selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 1998.
The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe (1997)
Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream throuigh the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money (1996)
Christianity and Civil Society: The Cointemporary Debate (1996)
Learning to Care (1995)
God and Mammon in America (1994)
Producing the Sacred: An Essay on Public Religion (1994)
Sharing the Journey: Support Groups and America's New Quest for Community (1994) A main selection of the Behavioral Science Book Club.
Christianity in the 21st Century: Reflections on the Challenbges Ahead (1993)
Rediscovering the Sacred (1992) Macedonian translation (2003)
Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves (1990) Religious Book Club main selection (1991) Spanish translation (1996)
Communities of Discourses (1989)
The Struggle for America's Soul (1989)
The Restructuring of American Religion (1988) Religious Book Club main selection (1989)
Meaning and Moral Order (1987)
Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas (with others, 1984) Spanish translation (1988) Chinese translation (1994)
Experimentation in American Religion (1978)
The Consciousness Reformation (1976)